The Global History Reader Book

Pt. I	The question of periodization	15
1	Global history and world history	16
2	World history in a global age	21
Pt. II	Time and space	31
3	The culture of time and space	32
4	Technology and statecraft in the space age	46
Pt. III	The information revolution	51
5	Cyberculture	52
6	The global information revolution and state power	60
Pt. IV	Multinational enterprises	69
7	Globalization at bay	70
8	Mapping multinationals	79
Pt. V	Migrations	91
9	Diasporas, the nation-state, and globalization	92
10	Migration and its enemies	104
Pt. VI	Consumerism	115
11	The global city : New York, London, Tokyo	116
12	Consumerism in the context of the global ecumene	125
Pt. VII	The natural environment	133
13	Environmental activism	135
14	International environmental policy	146
Pt. VIII	Human rights	157
15	Human rights as an issue in world politics	158
16	Human rights as global imperative	169
Pt. IX	Non-governmental organizations	181
17	The role of international organizations	182
18	The third sector in the second world	191
Pt. X	Internationalism	201
19	Internationalism	202
20	The withering away of the nation?	209
Pt. XI	Global culture	221
21	The globalization of music	222
22	Scenarios for peripheral cultures	232
Pt. XII	The globalization of disease	241
23	The globalization of disease	242
24	Travel and infectious diseases	247
Pt. XIII	Terrorism	253
25	What is terrorism?	255
26	War with terrorism	264
Pt. XIV	Syntheses and conclusions	275
27	Cultural dimensions of globalization	276
28	The globalizing of modernity	285